The Workers Rights Campaign finds the deductions in April salaries of health workers from Grade Level 9 upwards criminal and totally unacceptable.
The deductions which range from N200,000.00 for those on Grade Level 9 to N600,000.09 for consultants affect all cadres of health professionals and all levels of health care delivery. Workers in primary health care, general hospitals, and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) are all groaning in pain.
The salaries which were not even enough to meet their needs are now being slashed in contempt of the labour law and with disdain to the workers.
We demand the immediate reversal of this condemnable cuts. And this should not be end. We further demand upward review of their salaries instead of slashing it.
Health workers are the backbone of healthcare delivery. Governments cannot be complaining about the mass migration of health workers to seek greener pastures on one hand and be paying those who have stayed back peanuts like monkeys on the other.
Enough is enough. Health workers deserve better. All workers deserve better. Stop making us suffer. Pay what we are due NOW!
Signed: Lai BROWN (WRC Nat. Coordinator) & Kelvin AYEMHENRE (WRC Nat. Secretary)
